Black Studies in Video will weave together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. At completion, the collection will contain five hundred hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.

The collection draws from partnerships with organizations such as California Newsreel, the US’s oldest nonprofit social issue documentary film center. Through this collaboration, Black Studies in Video will offer exclusive access to the SNCC Legacy Video Collection, a series of more than fifty hours of formal addresses, panel discussions, and programs that took place at the fiftieth anniversary conference and reunion commemorating the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Other planned key content includes films from notable filmmaker Marlon Riggs: Color Adjustment, Black Is…Black Ain’t, and Ethnic Notions; and materials from the Hatch-Billops Collection, a critically acclaimed archive of primary and secondary resource materials focused on black American art, drama, and literature.

“Black Studies in Video is a core collection that embodies our goal of making silent voices heard,” says Vice President of Licensing Will Whalen. “It builds off our earlier databases in black drama, literature, history, sociology, and culture to provide some of the most important video content in the field.”

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